SYSTEMS AND SERVICES

ARCTIC manages Georgia State’s advanced cyberinfrastructure, which includes high-performance computing clusters, high-performance data storage systems, research networking as well as on-premise cloud and commercial cloud computing. ARCTIC also facilitates advanced scientific computing by providing consultancy services in software development, software hardening, performance optimization, and science gateway development. ARCTIC resources are mostly funded through federal and state external funding agencies. In addition to externally funded resources, ARCTIC manages a condominium cluster, where individual researchers have the ability to bring their own resources and share it with the community.

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Each Year ARCTIC resources provide 25 Million CPU hours and 600,000 GPU hours.

Condominium Model

Through Georgia State's condominium service, researchers may invest in HPC resources (compute nodes or storage) that are placed in Georgia State’s common HPC resource. The condominium HPC model presents researchers with greater flexibility and power with greatly reduced overhead and management requirements as compared to owning and operating individual, standalone clusters. Participants in the condo service have full priority on the invested resources, plus they gain access to additional cluster resources (including low-latency networking and centrally managed applications). Participants in the condo service agree to share unused resources with the rest of the Georgia State community.

ACIDS

Funded through the NSF MRI grant (CNS-1920024), this resource provides 2,000 compute cores, 16TB memory (which includes high memory nodes with 3TB memory per node), and 32 NVIDIA V100 GPUs. This resource has redundant data storage with 250TB usable data storage capacity and a 200TB scratch high-performance parallel file system. All the data is managed by the iRODS data management platform.

ACIDS is available to the broader research community. The resource allocation committee manages access to the resource, based on allocation proposals.

TReNDS

Funded by Georgia Research Alliances, this cluster provides 2,500 compute cores, 30 TB RAM and 40 NVIDIA V100 GPUs, and 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. TReNDS is served by multiple storage subsystems totaling 1.5PB storage capacity.

This resource is mainly available to the GSU research community.

CDER

This NSF sponsored resource provides an additional 316 cores, 1664 GB RAM, and 40 TB storage, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X and 4 * NVIDIA V100 16GB GPUs. CDER instructional resources are being used by researchers and instructors around the world.

CDERHD

This NSF sponsored 12 node Hadoop/Spark cluster features 200 cores, 640 GB memory and 112 TB HDFS storage. This instructional resource is being used by researchers and instructors around the world.

PHOTON

PHOTON is a 15 node cluster with 360 cores and 2,880 GB RAM. This system is connected through 56Gbps FDR InfiniBand interconnect. Each node in this system features 800GB NVMe scratch space to support applications that use frequent scratch access.

This resource is mainly available to the GSU research community.

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